New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 14

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and highlight our favorite five in a brisk mix of clips, context and commentary.

The podcast is hosted by NPR Music's Stephen Thompson, and each episode features a member of the NPR Music Network of public radio stations. This week, our guest is Samantha Hval, the program director at WMNF in Florida.

Scroll down to see which albums we discussed this week and links to our New Music Friday playlists, where you can hear singles from each album. Then scroll down to see the long list and Dora's Corner, where NPR Music production assistant Dora Levite shares her favorite albums that didn't make the podcast.

The Starting Five

🎵 Phoebe Bridgers, Lost Weekend (Dead Oceans)

• Recommended If You Like: boygenius, Mitski

🎵 Jungle, Sunshine (AWAL)

• RIYL: Parcels, KAYTRANADA

🎵 Hovvdy, Big World (Arts & Crafts)

• RIYL: Snail Mail, This Is Lorelei

🎵 Sweeping Promises, You Say I Romanticize (Sub Pop)

• RIYL: Joy Division, Cola

🎵 L'Rain, fata morgana (Mexican Summer)

• RIYL: Julia Holter, Loraine James

New Music Friday is a part of the NPR Music podcast. Hear the discussion on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Lightning Round

Five more albums we wish we could have discussed on the podcast, recommended by NPR Music's staff:

⚡ The Womack Sisters, The Womack Sisters (Daptone)

⚡ Channel Tres, Enigma POV (Alta)

⚡ Nina Winder-Lind, Wild Love (Transgressive)

⚡ Ayra Starr, Starrgirl (Marvin / Republic)

⚡ Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal, DOOMED! (Backwoodz Studioz)

Listen to each album's best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.

Dora's Corner

Dora Levite is New Music Friday's production assistant, an occasional All Songs Considered guest, and 17 years old according to her Spotify Wrapped. Below are her picks for the best albums not featured on the show.

💿 James Ellis Ford, Lost in Another World (Domino)

💿 Black Rave Culture, Black Rave Culture Vol 4 (self-released)

💿 Power Snatch, EP2 (self-released)

The Long List

Rock/Alt/Indie

• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Alien Metal (p(doom))
• Radiator Hospital, Distorting Time (Lame-O)
• Cold Light, Coldtron2 (FO)
• Credit Card, Devil's Night / Dead Internet (Goth Horse)
• Getdown Services, Massive Champion (Breakfast)
• Kiwi jr, Blowin Up (K / Perennial)
• Real Numbers, Was It Always This Way (Slumberland)
• Judah & The Lion, I Am A Prism (Dualtone)
• Sparks, Sparks Live On the Moon (Transgressive)
• Living Weapon, Death in the Family (Closed Casket Activities)
• Shock Corridor, Shock Corridor (Only Kidding!)
• Empires in Orbit, Audiodrome (Doom City)
• Hank Heaven, Welterweight EP (Nice Life)

Pop

• Iben, HULDER (Oh So Quiet)
• ALANI, Somewhere Between Saying It EP (self-released)
• Hayley Law, Last Summer (Hot Honey)
• Becky G, BARAJA BENDITA (Sony)
• Benny Blanco, Hermoso (Friends Keep Secrets)
• Icona Pop, Ritual (Ultra)
• KATSEYE, Wild EP (HYBE x Geffen)
• Lukas Graham, Good Times (Virgin)
• Jenna Raine, Jeans, Boys & Jesus (Warner)

Country/Folk/Americana

• Wade Forster, The Aftermath (self-released)
• Grace Cummings, Bloodhorse! (ATO)
• Elizabeth Cook, Great Television (Thirty Tigers)
• Johanna Samuels, Sorry Kid (Odd Man Out)
• Laura Veirs, Temple Songs (Raven Marching Band)
• Maggie Rose, Half Moon (One Riot)
• Ashley Cooke, ashley cooke (Big Loud)
• Carly Simon, Comes in Waves (Iris)
• Alex Dupree, Talking to the Dog (Scissor Tail)

Electronic/Out There

• Djrum, I Wander (Houndstooth)
• ZAINAB, Canal View (Technicolour)
• Peking Duk, Paradise (Virgin)
• Rochelle Jordan, Through the Wall (Remixes) (Empire)
• Melaina Kol, Okay that's a great idea because if I do that then (Julia's War)
• Ann Wilson & Tripsitter, Consecrated Ground (Tawt Tunes / LouJon)
• Duffy x Uhlmann, Hot Creek (Orindal)
• Jesse Draxler, Traap Number 9 (Federal Prisoner)
• Sk8star, The Beautiful Rebellion (UMG)
• oktehya, a changeable feast EP (Neon Gold Records / Futures ✦)
• Brendan Angelides, Can You Feel The End Begin? (Ancestor)

Global

• Arin Ray, LIMBO (CampCo)
• Maryam Turkey, Hiragt El Rouh (Otherly Love)
• Bajune Tobeta, Anechoic (electric sheep)
• Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi, Mystic Liverpool - The Beatles Psychedelic Psongbook (Cherry Red / Jah Wobble)

Jazz

• Dana & Alden, Papa's Boat (Concord Jazz)
• Jon Batiste, Black Mozart Vol. 2 (UMG)
• Kelly Doyle, Thieves (Strolling Bones)
• Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen, Windflower (ECM)
• The Miles Davis Quintet, Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet (Concord)

R&B/Soul

• Fridayy, Tension (Def Jam)
• Everything Is Recorded, Cut Off Your Nose EP (XL)
• KIMIKO, Modern Dance (mikomiko)
• Just Jayne, Jayne (UMG / The Core)
• Bob Marley & The Wailers, Roots, Rock, Reggae (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK June 1976) (Tuff Gong/Island/UMe)
• Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues Experience (Decca)

Rap/Hip-Hop

• Trippie Redd, NDA (14000 / 10k / Atlantic)
• Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux, PROLIFIC (Atlantic)
• Dylvinci, Repository (self-released)
• BSlime, W.A.W.G. (YSL)
• Michael Christmas, Chris Crack & Girl Talk, Don't Come To My House Sharing Your Location (C&G)
• Nechazz, Pieces of a Dream (Habibi Funk)
• E L U C I D & Fatboi Sharif, Invasion Body Camera (Fused Arrow)
• Paul Wall & Termanology, Repeat Repeat Repeat (Perfect Time)
• Dillom, La Nueva Violencia (Bohemian Groove)
• P-Lo, Out The Box (Empire)

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Host: Stephen Thompson • Guest: Samantha Hval, WMNF • Audio: Suraya Mohamed • Producer: Elle Mannion • Production Assistant: Dora Levite • Editor: Otis Hart • Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed • Executive Director: Sonali Mehta}